@djangocfg/widget-ogimage

Open Graph cards for Next.js apps. What a link becomes when someone pastes it into WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage or Facebook — often the only part of a site a person sees before deciding whether to open the page.

One satori renderer, the vendored Plus Jakarta Sans, and the two card "fabrics" every opengraph-image.tsx calls. Brand identity is bound once per app, so two apps on this package draw from the same layout and still read as two products.

Quick start

// app/_lib/og.tsx — bind the identity once
import { createOgCards, domainFromEnv } from '@djangocfg/widget-ogimage';
import { settings } from '@core/settings';

export const { size, contentType, brandCard, contentCard } = createOgCards({
  name: settings.app.name,
  description: settings.app.description,
  tagline: 'Run on one machine. Coordinate many.',
  domain: domainFromEnv({ fallback: settings.app.siteUrl }),
  siteUrl: settings.app.siteUrl,
  accentColor: '#61B8FF',
  mark: <svg …/>, // inline SVG only — see below
});

// app/opengraph-image.tsx — the brand card: home, and the fallback everywhere
import { brandCard, contentType, size } from '@lib/og';

export const runtime = 'nodejs';
export const alt = 'CMDOP — run commands across your machines';
export { size, contentType };

export default async function OpengraphImage() {
  return brandCard('Skills & MCP servers', 'Browse, search, and install.');
}

// app/skills/[slug]/opengraph-image.tsx — one entity
import { contentCard, contentType, size } from '@lib/og';
import { getSkill } from '@lib/api';

export const runtime = 'nodejs';
export { size, contentType };

export default async function Image({ params }: { params: Promise<{ slug: string }> }) {
  const { slug } = await params;
  const skill = await getSkill(slug).catch(() => null); // never throw — see rules

  return contentCard({
    title: skill?.seoTitle || skill?.name, // empty → brand card
    eyebrow: 'Skill',
    description: skill?.seoDescription,
    footer: 'Marketplace · Skills',
    image: skill?.cover, // absolute URL, root-relative path, or data URI
  });
}

Check locally by appending the segment to any page path: /opengraph-image, /skills/<slug>/opengraph-image. Both return a 1200×630 PNG.

Three rules

runtime = 'nodejs' on every route. The font decoder uses Buffer, which the edge runtime does not provide.

Never throw. A card renders while a crawler waits. A route that 500s leaves a bare grey rectangle in the chat thread — strictly worse than a generic brand card. Every fetch is .catch(() => null), and contentCard falls back to brandCard when the title is empty.

No openGraph.images above a card. Next's file convention only applies where no explicit images is set in metadata, and an explicit entry wins. An images array in a layout does not complement the cards below it, it silently disables them — the root layout can suppress every card in the app at once. withoutOgImages(metadata) strips them from generated metadata.

API

OgCardsConfig

Layout

The frame is 1200×630 and satori does not clip: a title long enough to wrap pushes into the footer instead of truncating. titleSizeFor steps the title through 84 → 66 → 52px at 34 and 58 characters, and fitDescription budgets the description against those same steps (150 → 92 → 0 characters), so the two move together. Change one, change the other.

Over a photograph a two-pass scrim darkens the left half so the copy survives whatever the image happens to be, and the copy column narrows to stay on the scrimmed ground. The numbers were arrived at by rendering; if you change them, render one and look at it.

Fonts

src/fonts/index.ts is generated — the three .woff files beside it are the source of truth. Satori cannot use next/font (woff2, returns class names) and cannot read a .woff beside a route in a production build (nothing traces it into the output), so the bytes are inlined as base64 into the module graph. ~64KB of source, paid at build time, never sent to a browser.

pnpm fonts   # node scripts/generate-fonts.mjs

Plus Jakarta Sans, SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Metadata

Page Metadata (title template, canonical, hreflang, static brand image) is @djangocfg/nextjs/og-image's makeMetadataFactory. It has no "render a card" case on purpose: the file convention above overrides metadata by design, so supporting both would be two mechanisms competing to set the same tag.